Mentalfloss - Release Your Overwhelm

This short, but upbeat, meditation allows you to release any stress or overwhelm from your busy day, hectic lifestyle or emotional challenge. Let Robert guide you to sense your body as a whole, by feeling the contact you have with the surface beneath you. The lively backing track to this practice, will revitalise your mind.

Transcript

Welcome to day five of Mental Floss.

Today is all about overwhelm.

So find a place now,

Take a moment to sit,

Recline or lay down calmly,

Comfortably and safely.

Have yourself a shuffle around and allow yourself to take a few longer,

Slower,

Deeper breaths as your eyes comfortably close down.

Now sensing your body as a whole,

As you sit there,

As you recline or as you lay here,

Feeling the contact of your body with the surface beneath you.

Feel the soles of your feet,

Your heels,

Your toes.

Notice how you can feel the sensations.

No imagining this time,

No image,

No pictures,

Just the feeling.

That's right.

Just feeling your feet on the outside and from the inside.

Feeling your calf muscles,

Your knees,

Your thigh muscles up to your stomach.

Notice if you're holding any tension there and allow yourself to soften the stomach and release.

Just feeling your stomach moving as you inhale and exhale.

Feeling your lower back now.

Moving to your upper back,

Your shoulders relaxing,

Sensing all the sensations around your chest,

Your ribs.

Moving,

Expanding and contracting,

Breathing,

Filling,

Emptying,

Your lungs moving,

Your heart beating,

Softly relaxing,

Chest rising and falling.

Feeling your arms,

Your elbows,

Your forearms,

Wrists and hands and fingers.

The feel of any material touching those fingers.

Your neck,

Your head.

Feeling your mouth and jaw relaxing,

Forehead relaxing,

Your eyes relaxing and feeling your fingers and toes once again.

And beginning to gently move your fingers and toes,

Slowly moving,

Wiggling,

Now moving your arms slightly,

One after the next.

Beginning to notice the sounds around you,

Making them clearer and louder and gently opening your eyes.

Reviews

This did help. Just to take my mind off current situation, thank I will be coming back in the future

I loveeee the background noises. The rhythm instantly put me in a good mood.

A nice little meditation. Thank you 😃

Really great quick body scan for someone with ADHD. Simple.

A great reset when I was starting to let the day get on top of me. Thanks!

A great relaxing meditation. Thank you for this meditation 😊😊🙏🙏

Having a Covid freakout and this was exactly what I needed. Too stressed to attempt anything even 10 min long so grateful for this lovely reset. 🧘

Wow. I usually find a strong back track to be distracting. This one enhanced my experience. Surprising and effective! Well done and thank you.

Excellent little lesson on releasing tension. Thank you.

Very nice and quick for my hectic mornings!

I was on a train, surrounded by a hen party, with the aura before a migraine, completely overwhelmed, and feeling very unable to cope. I closed my eyes, dived straight in to this, trusted myself, and emerged with a little more capacity to get through the next couple of hours! I honestly opened my eyes feeling in a very happy warm hug like haze. Thanks for another little life saver :)

Lovely and helpful, thank you!!

This is a great mid-work day meditation to reset from an overwhelming morning or even an end-of work day meditation to decompress from an overwhelming day. Namaste 🙏

Short, but effective! Thank you!

Fantastic, thankfully :)

Short but very good

An awesome 5min meditation. Love it!

Excellent brief physical reset. Heartfelt thanks. 💖🙏

This. Was. Amazing. Wow.